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Spodumene - Haapaluoma Mine, Finland
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A Large piece of spodumene from Finland. The fluorescent mineral is spodumene but the piece has all kinds of other minerals - quite pretty under white light.
There is a beautiful, well-formed crystal of tourmaline on the second side of the specimen.
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